The intention is to introduce you to the people who have been carving their own path...with no care for what anybody thinks.

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Andrew Duprey on guitar, Chris Mowforth on bass, Stuart Watson on drums and Lesley Rankine on bellows. Cracking band that I never got to see live, I even wrote to them asking them to get their arses up to Manchester ... not saying I'm bitter ... but ...

Another great one by Martin & Broadrick, "The Brotherhood of the Bomb" came out on Matador in 2001 and fully embraces in-the-red noisy hip-hop and dub in a way that foreshadow's Martin's work as The Bug. Anti-Pop Consortium, Vast Aire, El-P,Dalek and Rob Smith contribute to several tracks.

More successful than their "Ghosts" album were Techno Animal's singles and compilation tracks, many of which were released by minimal techno/house label Force Inc. Several of those stand-alone songs were collected into this album, which is (to my ears) the most enjoyable thing the duo did in its lifetime. Released by Position Chrome in 1998.

In 1991, the same year that Godflesh came out with their masterwork "Pure", Kevin Martin and Justin Broadrick made this strange album of unentertaining industrial beats. Released on Martin's Pathological Records label.

The Terminal Cheesecake history is long and convoluted with tendrils that stretch into GOD, Skullflower and Head Of David ... so let's keep it to the practical information: this is monstrous acid-fried English noise rock!

In 1992, major labels Caroline and Virgin thought it was a wise idea to release a mammoth slab by Kevin Martin's industrial noise jazz orchestra, GOD. This album, their final full-length, includes more notable musicians sitting in: John Zorn is one of the four sax players here and jazz weirdo Gary Smith plays guitar alongside Justin Broadrick. Peter Kraut (of Albolth!) plays piano. The usual arsenal of three bass players is accompanied by two drummers. If that seems like an unnecessary amount of people, that's because it is.

First full album by GOD, the big industrial/metal/jazz band led by Kevin Martin (better known these days as The Bug) on tenor sax and vocals. The band also included Justin Broadrick (of Godflesh), improv bassist John Edwards, saxophonist Tim Hodgkinson (of Henry Cow) and more... a lot more! This record includes a total of three bass players, two drummers, bass clarinet, saxophone, two guitarists, a viola player and other folks contributing to the godlike din. Released on Big Cat in 1994.

On the first disc, you have three collaborations with AMM (Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury and Keith Rowe) and Musica Elettronica Viva (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum) ... if that doesn't thrill you with delight them you have already stopped reading this ...

It is probably this release that Alvin Curran (a co-founder of Musica Elettronica Viva) refers to when he says "a couple of French kids [which] we just took [...] in [the group] actually stole the name of the group and put out their own record". Good on 'em!

Initially released on vinyl in 1970, this is the CD reissue on Spalax2 from 1997.

A recording of the "classic" trio line-up of Keith Rowe (guitar and electronics), Eddie Prevost (drums) and John Tilbury (piano) live in Chicago in 1984. The "Combine & Laminates" LP was released by Pogus in 1990, then reissued five years later on CD by the band's own Matchless Recordings with an added track of AMM playing some of Cornelius Cardew's notorious "Treatise" graphical score.

Unparalleled classic of English free improvised music, recorded in 1968 and first released by Matchless Recordings as a double LP in 1981. It's been given several double CD reissues, one of which is what this post is. The line-up for this version of the group was Keith Rowe on tabletop guitar and electronics, the legendary Cornelius Cardew on piano, Eddie Prevost and Christopher Hobbs on drums and percussion, and Lou Gare on saxophone and violin.

Grant Hart was the drummer in Hüsker Dü. The news of his death was announced today ...

Hüsker Dü are one of the most important bands in my life ... whilst I silently reflect, here's a wonderful and poignant cover of The Byrds' Eight Miles High with a live version of Masochism World on the reverse.

Keith on tabletop guitar and electronic manipulation, Toshimaru Nakamura on his no-input mixing board, Sachiko Matsubara (a legend in her own right as well as being a frequent collaborator with Otomo Yoshihide including as a core member of Ground Zero) on "sinewaves and contact microphone on object" and Otomo Yoshihide on guitar and turntables. This is every bit as great as you have the right to expect.

Keith Rowe (co-founder of AMM and a member of MIMEO and The Scratch Orchestra amongst others) on tabletop guitar and electronics with Evan Parker on saxophones recorded live during two concerts at Pannonica, Nantes, on December 31th 1999 & January 1st 2000. What a way to see in the new millennium!

So, what do you do if you are a group of legends about to perform another exquisite set? Of course, you add another member of AMM: John Tilbury on piano. Recorded live at Angelica, Festival Internazionale Di Musica, Bologna, on May the 20th, 2001.

Given the roster of players here, you might expect it to sound like too many cooks all blasting at once. That's not what this is, though. Large group improvisations recorded in 1998 and 1999, edited in 1999 and released as a double CD that same year by a label called Grob. For this album, the band was Kaffe Matthews, Marcus Schmickler, Peter Rehberg, and Christian Fennesz on laptops; Gert-Jan Prins and Jerome Noetinger on electronics and tapes; Keith Rowe and Rafael Toral on guitars; Cor Fuhler on piano; Markus Wettstein on "amplified metal garbage"; Thomas Lehn on synthesizer and Phil Durrant on violin and electronics.

A staggering album of very large-group improvised electro-acoustic noise (amazingly, excerpted from an even longer performance) recorded at Serpentine Gallery and released by the gallery as a triple CD set in 2004. The band includes luminaries from all over the world: Marcus Schmickler (of Pluramon, Wabi Sabi, more) and Peter Rehberg (aka Pita, head of Editions MEGO) on laptops, Jerome Noetinger (head of Metamkine Records) playing tapes and electronics, Rafael Toral and Gert-Jan Prins on electronics, Keith Rowe (of AMM) on tabletop guitar, Thomas Lehn and Cor Fuhler on synthesizers, Phil Durrant on violin and synthesizer, and the whole project was directed by Kaffe Matthews, who also plays sampler and theremin. It's far too much to listen to in one sitting, but I suppose when you go through the trouble of bringing so many busy people together at one time, you may as well be efficient about it and record as much music as possible. The liner notes explain that the players were placed throughout the gallery space and could come and go throughout the performance, so this is not the free-for-all it might have been in less capable hands.

An unlikely homage to Masaya Nakahara's favourite record store complimented by his loathing of it's competitors ... he really doesn't like them.

CDr. Boid. 2010.

This is the last one for now, we're getting a bit twitchy and need to move on. We'll return to the theme soon and will be re-uploading all of the dead Stylistics links and will resurrect the Violent Onsen Geisha posts for good measure.

A short while ago, we re-drifted past the Hair Stylistics discogs page to find that the number of releases had doubled. At the last count, we have sixty seven of them and we were missing quite a few. Then "all of a sudden" it turns out that we are missing at least one hundred and sixteen. Sincerely brothers and sisters, we shed a tear! Actually, I cried a lot. The problem is that we have virtually nothing that was released after 2010 ... maybe three releases (and the two on bandcamp) and that's it! If anybody has any of these Holy Grail items that they would be willing to share we would be forever in your debt. It's more than fair enough if they aren't for posting, me and Mrs Inside are Masaya Nakahara fanatics and every new thing would bring us copious amounts of joy!